What we have here is a generation gap. 30+ years ago, when I was in school, if you got into a fight on school grounds, whoever started it got a 1 day suspension. If you took it off school grounds, nobody got suspended, you worked out your differences, and got on with life. Dads and older brothers taught the younger kids to stand up for themselves. Mouthy kids got black eyes and a lesson in manners. Any and/or all of the above have been made illegal in the last 25 years.